Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interesting as these figures are , they do not give an accurate indication of the average rate of volcanic activity over time . |
| 2 | Rates of volcanic activity through time are especially critical in determining whether intra-plate volcanoes formed in ocean basins ( as opposed to volcanoes associated with subduction zones ) will reach sea level to form a volcanic island , or remain submerged to form a seamount . |
| 3 | Already by the year 1200 there were numerous signs of economic pressure on time , and even two centuries earlier it appears that peasants and artisans near Fleury tended to ignore feast-days through a need to work in their fields . |
| 4 | Specify the exact nature of each task in time order |
| 5 | In terms of total expenditure of time , instructional and general care and supervisory activities were clearly the two main duties . |
| 6 | Members of the Royal British Legion and Sefton Borough Council officers worked together to replace the plaque and the names of 120 men in time for Remembrance Sunday . |
| 7 | This enabled investigation of possible changes over time . |
| 8 | The starting-point of that digression in time and place was that of leased prisons and the problems they increasingly raised for a socially responsible legislature . |
| 9 | In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ? |
| 10 | but I think for people to go and have plastic surgery of that length of time for erm any thing else other than medical reasons |
| 11 | Every conventional wet system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and the system pipework , as well as fresh oxygen , which aids further corrosion . |
| 12 | The system takes in small amounts of fresh water from time to time , and these introduce a fresh supply of mineral salts , which build up as scale deposits in the boiler and within the pipework . |
| 13 | It was no longer so easy to remain an island of reason when every timber surrounding us had been magically selected ; when our departure had been synchronized not with the weather , but with inner portents of another kind of time . |
| 14 | The research project will investigate these evolving patterns in a life course context to describe the experiences of different groups over time , and to attempt to explain the factors which have been responsible for these changes . |
| 15 | In addition to technological change , shifts in the relative prices of different interventions over time may affect the ranking . |
| 16 | It enacts in its form a faith that the experience of broken suffering in time is in reality the choreography and notation for the dance and music of love and Rolle advises his disciple that meditation on this reality will draw up her heart " so hert mai loke intil heven " ( 69.261 – 2 ) . |
| 17 | Because of this delay in time , it is perhaps an exaggeration to say that the expansion of English maritime activity between 1460 and 1520 prepared the way for seizing opportunities which were opening up in many parts of the world ( 63 , p.163 ) . |
| 18 | Gradually the pairing of this warning to time out leads to the warning itself acquiring some punishing properties . |
| 19 | Property inheritance , for new generations of the upper class , for example , is clearly a vital economic resource that is crucial to the reproduction of this class over time . |
| 20 | The purposes of this 2 year prospective study were : ( 1 ) to determine whether rectal epithelial cell proliferation evaluated at index polypectomy can be used to predict the risk for adenoma recurrence and ( 2 ) to assess the stability of this marker over time . |
| 21 | Care , of course , has to be taken not to equate , by necessity , duration with severity , for a child might be just as traumatized by one incident as by a succession of repeated incidents over time . |
| 22 | In The Decline of the West Spengler argued that world history exhibited a cyclical pattern based on the organic growth and decay of separate cultures through time . |
| 23 | Quite the reverse , these become the trusted friends that truly understand and can be of real help in time of trouble . |
| 24 | During week-ends I have two part-time helpers and I also have a couple of part-time helpers from time to time . |
| 25 | B8 ) as depending upon the universal tendency towards adjustment of form and process ; to direct investigation towards the essentially multivariate character of geomorphic phenomena ; to admit a more liberal view of morphological changes with time to include the possibility of non-significant or non-progressive changes of certain aspects of landscape form through time ; to foster a dynamic approach to geomorphology to complement the historical one ; to focus upon the whole landscape assemblage rather than upon those parts assumed to have evolutionary significance ; to encourage geomorphic investigations in those areas where evidence for erosional history may be deficient ; and to direct attention to the heterogeneity of spatial organization . |
| 26 | Calculate the cost of each overhead against the foreseeable programme of works ( for example , cost of the project manager for six months , one tower crane for two months , accommodation for eight months ) to produce a graph of overhead costs against time which is checked against the tender programme . |
| 27 | The CCPR ( cells/crypt/hour ) was determined by the slope of the regression line comparing the number of mitotic figures with time . |
| 28 | A third dimension that we also need to be aware of is the development of organisational structures over time . |
| 29 | The surplus was also the product of parliamentary taxation in time of peace . |
| 30 | Rape trials have been the subject of this analysis of these changes over time so far . |